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Detailed Description

This video decoder outputs PAL8 colorspace data. Interacting with this decoder is a little involved. During initialization, the demuxer must transmit the 65536-byte Huffman table(s) to the decoder via extradata. Then, whenever a palette change is encountered while demuxing the file, the demuxer must use the same extradata space to transmit an AVPaletteControl structure.

id CIN video is purely Huffman-coded, intraframe-only codec. It achieves a little more compression by exploiting the fact that adjacent pixels tend to be similar.

Note that this decoder could use libavcodec's optimized VLC facilities rather than naive, tree-based Huffman decoding. However, there are 256 Huffman tables. Plus, the VLC bit coding order is right -> left instead or left -> right, so all of the bits would have to be reversed. Further, the original Quake II implementation likely used a similar naive decoding algorithm and it worked fine on much lower spec machines.